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by jerlam 2mo ago
$40K for a month, not a year. $40k a month for a year is nearly half a million dollars. Even the actual money they spent for the month, $13k, comes out to more than $150k a year. And that's after taxes. Obviously no one is going on Haw
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Cars are slowly becoming subsidized by subscriptions and advertisements. And to some extent, costs of maintenance and gasoline.
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by jerlam 2mo ago
The fast food places near me closed all their dining rooms when indoor dining was banned during the pandemic. They converted their front doors into Doordash-only pickup. I was expecting that change to be permanent for fast food joints, but
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by jerlam 2mo ago
In-N-Out may have a lot of staff but my experience is that they are extraordinarily slow for "fast food", and this was before the pandemic. They would never meet the metrics of other chains. Arguably, they have always been underst
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by jerlam 2mo ago
Waymo has taken significant market share from Lyft and Uber in San Francisco already: https://underscoresf.com/in-san-francisco-waymo-has-now-best...
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by jerlam 2mo ago
It does monthly trends: https://m-cdn.phonearena.com/images/articles/452350-image/in... That image also implies that not only does it know trends, but it also has an absolute good/bad value.
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by jerlam 2mo ago
Fitbit is probably gone by the end of the decade. The Fitbit app has been replaced by the Google Health app. Other than the Fitbit Air released this year and the Fitbit Ace for kids, the last Fitbit device was released in 2023. Both of thos
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by jerlam 2mo ago
I assume all the companies have zero respect for any of their users now. At least Apple can maintain a tablet and laptop line for more than a few years without the urge to restart it with "brand new ideas".
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by jerlam 2mo ago
DC Rainmaker has done his own test: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2026/08/google-pixel-watch-5-gps...
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That's the only plausible scenario, but it also came out in 2023 and people stopped caring at least a year before. And it persisted for a few years so either someone thought they could salvage something from it, or no one had a better
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by jerlam 2mo ago
It's not just that it's too expensive. It's the uncertainty. No one knows how much anything costs until you get the bill several months afterwards. Every time you go to the doctor, you're giving them a blank check.
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by jerlam 2mo ago
I was legitimately excited to get an iPhone Mini. Every new phone feels like a downgrade. I don't care if the phone is faster if it's an annoyance to carry, or hold in one hand.
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Conversely, I was surprised to learn that the temperature sensor introduced on the Pixel 8 Pro in 2023 was only removed this year. No one knew why it was there in the first place.
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by jerlam 2mo ago
There was a "Job Spotter" app in the late 2010s where you would take pictures of help wanted signs and get paid small amounts, a weird bridge between online job boards and physical signs. I made $50 in five months, then the pandem
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by jerlam 2mo ago
Yes, if you go to a junior college or night school, you will discover what an actual busy schedule looks like and it's not sports clubs and volunteer activities taken for the sole purpose of inflating your college admissions letter. So
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People called them "weeder" classes in my university. But it's better earlier rather than later. The consequences aren't severe and you can change majors, lessen your course load, or stop those volunteer opportunities. T
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by jerlam 2mo ago
> The idea is to make the device easy to carry around the home with one hand. So their target audience has a large enough home that they need a completely separate device since they have areas that aren't covered either by smart spe
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But you will have a much better idea what to buy, when you have first-hand experience with the weather and are surrounded by locals who are adequately prepared.
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by jerlam 2mo ago
I tried layering when I traveled somewhere cold, where the high was just above freezing. I felt foolish whenever I went indoors and had to peel off three or four layers in order to feel comfortable. The next time I went, I brought a proper
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by jerlam 2mo ago
Also, old homes don't have the outlets for heat pumps. If you're lucky, it's just a breaker, wire, and outlet. If you're unlucky, it requires an electrical panel upgrade or worse.
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by jerlam 2mo ago
Most modern open-world games have waypoint indicators and on-screen minimaps, if not teleportation, because memorizing and navigating and traversing through the video game map is not particularly fun.
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There weren't a lot of taxis outside of major cities. I think widespread GPS allows ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft to exist in suburbs and other places where taxis weren't a thing before, because it dramatically lowers the ba
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It doesn't really matter how much you spend if the leadership is incompetent.
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Except the one at Costco, which will still be $1.50 somehow.
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And if you know the new owners will screw up your ice cream brand, you can wait a decade and do it all over again, leveraging your new wealth, knowledge, and connections to make it easier.
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by jerlam 2mo ago
Well this was 15 years ago, all companies were trying to jump on the social media bandwagon (Google Plus launched in 2011), and both companies and users had to re-learn what privacy meant.
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It's a portable device that can't be used outside the house or near other people?
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A lot of tech is overfit to the product manager role in tech companies. One of the side effects of living in a bubble. My Apple Watch is set up by default to assume any 15-minute walk is a "workout" and interrupt me to ask if I wa
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by jerlam 2mo ago
I found this doozy from someone trying to test out the feature: > After looking over Google’s advice, my key takeaway was that thieves are in much better shape than me, and run both longer and faster than this nerdy writer has in more th
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by jerlam 2mo ago
As a visitor, it's probably impossible to know the real cost of living is in different areas, because you're not employed locally, paid local wages, or paying rent and utilities. You are a foreigner with foreign money staying in h

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